Artist Spotlight: Olly Moss

I just came across this faaaantastic video on Mike Mitchell's blog. Olly Murs is a name I've heard of, but never really bothered to find out who he is. Watching this video, I think I can tell I'm gonna be a fan of his

http://vimeo.com/23621548

Having gone on his blog:
http://moss.fm, I realised I had come across some of his work before, and to sum it up in the simplest of terms: it's good work.


Olly Moss was born in '87. That means he IS ONE YEAR OLDER THAN ME. And he is making illustrations for Empire magazine and Marvel (meaning he got to visit the Thor set!) In fact, here's his current client list:

CLIENTS: Lucasfilm / Star Wars, Star Trek, ABC / LOST, Levis. The Alamo Drafthouse, Urban Outfitters, Nike, Puma, Penguin, Wired, GQ, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times Magazine, Threadless

Say it with me folks: oh, my, god. OH MY GOD. It's kinda really encouraging but really freakin' scary too.

I'm gonna say this flat out; I don't know what I'm gonna do when I leave uni. And considering that's less than 2 months away, that's a pretty freaking scary thought. I'm always waiting for some ...magic event to happen that will land me with an awesome career as an awesome artist.

As an ultimate goal, for some time in the future, but not too far, is to run a gallery. An illustration gallery.

For years I've been aware of various galleries in America that I would love to one day, have my work in.

Nucleus Gallery

Gallery 1988

Bird and Bear Gallery.

These galleries are all sorts of awesome; they cater to Illustration and graphic design, they're run by young people and display young artists. To sum it up, it's all very cool. And I want one. I don't know if it's just my own naiivity, but I feel illustration isn't very accessible outside of places like London (and possibly some other big cities)

Getting my head together

I did my biggest problem with this project is dealing with my spontaneity; I'll get an idea, push towards it then abandon it for another idea. I'll get an idea for a comic, but it always happens at a bad time, either at the gym or right before I'm about to fall asleep. By the next day the idea isn't that great anymore, or I've got a new idea and wanna work on that. I need to step back and sort out my ideas, write them down and keep to them. Here's a start:

Final things:

A book, made at blurb.com. Accompanying merchandise of sorts.

Comics:

Famous feasts.

Ghost party

Tea

Sushi

British food

Other

Packaging: little food type packaging for goods. Possibly screenprinted.

Possibility of vending machine or or something for at final show.

Acrylic charms of characters

Tote bags.

Badges: done.

Stickers: done.

I'm sure theres more but I'll have to get to it as I remember it. The important thing Is I've got the basics down.